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A 
HISTORY 

OF THE 

MO ULT O N 
FAMILY 

A RECORD 

of the 

DESCENDENTS OF 

JAMES MOULTON 

OF SALEM AND WENHAM 

MASSACHUSETTS 

From 1629 to 1905 



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Published by 

W. P. MouLTON AND Children 

Stuart, Iowa, 1905 






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Compiled by 

Eben Hobson MoultoNj late of Beverly and 

Henry A. Moulton, of Wenham 

Massachusetts. 



EDITOR'S NOTE 



The general history of the Moulton Family, by 
Augustus F. Moulton, and the coat of arms, we copy 
from the Maine Historical and Genealogical Rec.rd, 
published by S. M. Watson, Portland, Maine, 1888. 




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HE Moultons of this country are of 
English origin. We find the name in 
the various forms — Multon, Muleton, 
Mokon, Moleton, Moulson and Moul- 
ton. The similiarlty l:)v;conies apparent in the pro- 
nunciation of Multon with the long vowel sound, i. e. 
Moolteri. The family is probably of Norman descent. 
The earliest ot the name of whom record is found 
was Thomas Multon, or D; Multon, stated in the 
Domesday Book made by order of the Norman Will- 
iam in 1086 to have been put in possession of an 
estate called "Galeshore. " Later another Thomas 
Multon, or Moulton, of mixed Norman and Saxon 
descent, a resident of Gillesland in Cumberland, called 
also in French De Vaux, was an attendant of Richard 
1 in his crusading wars and appears prominentlv in 
Scott's tale of the Talisman.-!' The name of still an- 
other Thomas appears on the Magna Charta granted 
by King John in 121 5. In 1290 Roger was warden 
of St. Julian's Hospital in Southhampshire. The claim 
of descent from these early families, though traditional, 
receives support from the general similiarity of the 
Multon coats of arms with that of the Moultons given 

*See The Talisman Chapter VI and Scott's note to same. 



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T HE M O U L T O N FAMILY 

here.* Whatever the original Moultons may have been, 
the lapse of five centuries which blended Norman, Saxon 
Dane, and Briton into a common nationality, made them 
Englishmen, and the family in the seventeenth century 
seem to have been composed largely of husbandmen 
with a decided sprinkling of those who followed the sea. 
It is a fact, as Disraeli once told the House of Lords 
in caustic language, that the descendents of the old 
families are now to be found, with but few exceptions, 
among the commoners. 

Robert Moulton was in the Royal Navy in 1636, 
and he and his sons, James and Robert Jr., still held 
commands under Parliament after the death of Charles 
I. No less than five captains by the name of Moulton 
appear on the register of the navy at about that time. 

The name is common in the counties Lincoln, York- 
shire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Devonshire, Norfolk and 
London. In these counties Puritanism had its strong- 
hold and the emigrant Moultons were evidently of 
that faith. They came to America with the great 



*The Moulton coat of arms here given is a fac simile of that in 
possession of Henry W. Moulton, Esq., of Newburyport, Mass. 
This he copied from an ancient parchment owned by a descendent 
of Thomas Moulton, the emigrant, living in York, Maine, and 
which has been handed down in the family. The motto is not 
legible. It accords exactly with a description given in Burke's 
General Armory, viz. "Moulton (Gloucestershire, Kent, London 
and Yorkshire, granted 1571). Ar. three bars gu. between 
three bars sa. three, two, two and one. Crest: on a pellet a falcon 
rising ar. " The arms of Thomas Multon as given by Burke are: 
" Moulton or Multon (Baron of Gillesand temp. Edw. I) ar. 
three bars gu. a label of five points az." 



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emigration during the rime of Charles I prior to the 
meeting of the Long Parliament. In those years more 
than twenty thousand Englishmen, oppressed for con- 
science sake, left their homes and came to the New- 
England wilderness. These emigrants, says Green in 
his History of the English People, " were not like the 
earlier colonists of the south, broken men, adventur- 
ers" •"■or simply poor men* ••"The bulk were 
God-fearing farmers from Lincolnshire and the eastern 
counties. They desired ♦ only the best ' as sharers in 
their enterprise. " 

The earliest settlers of the name in this country so 
far as can be learned were: 

I. Thomas, of Jamestown, Virginia, 1624-5. 
His name appears in the list of settlers made at that 
time, was then twenty-five years old, probably not 
married. It is not known that any descendents re- 
main. 

II. Robert, of Salem, Mass., 1629. Master Ship- 
wright. Had grant of 200 acres of land from Salem. 
He lived in Charlestown, at one time, where the navy 
yard now is and had a house there. The place was 
called Moulton's Point. It was on this point that the 
British landed when they crossed from Boston to fight 
the battle of Bunker Hill. He filled various offices 
of trust and responsibility and died in 1635. His 
will is at the Clerk of Courts' office in Salem. Des- 
cendents in Lynn, Peabody, Western Massachusetts, 
Connecticut, New York and the West, also in Paris, 
France. Francis D. Moulton, Beechers " Mutual 
Friend" was of this family. John T. Moulton, Esq., 
of Lynn, a scholarly gentleman and member of the 

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New England Historical and Genealogical Society and 
of the Essex Institute of Salem, to whom I am much 
indebted for information about the earliest families, is 
also a descendant. 

III. James, of Salem, Mass., 1637, finally of 
Wenham, Mass. Freeman in 1637-S. The descen- 
dants of James remain in Beverly and Wenham. Some 
went to Conn, at an early day and to Rhode Island, 

IV. Thomas, of Charlestowii, Mass., 1630. 
Had descendants for three or four generations and then 
the name seemed to die out. 

V. Thomas, of Newbury, Mass., then Hampton, 
N. H., 1638, finally of York, Me. Most of the 
York County Moultons are his descendants. 

VI. John, of Newbury, Mass., then Hampton, 
N. H., 1638. Has descendants in Porter, Standish, 
Deering and elsewhere in Maine. 

VII. William, of Newbury, Mass., finally of 
Hampton, N. H., 1639. Descendants numerous in 
N. H., Mass. and Me. The Moultons of Scarborough 
and Parsonsfield, Me. are mostly of this branch. 

"That the family has not been wholly wanting in 
members ot social and political influence and not limit- 
ed as to numbers is evident from the fact that there are 
five parishes and two or more townships in England, one 
village in Lawrence Co., Ala., one post office in La- 
vaca Co., Te.vas, one in Shelby Co., III., one village 
or post office in Gonzales Co., Texas, one in Appa- 
noosa Co., Iowa, one in Mo. and one township in An- 
glaize Co. , O. , called Moulton, one post office in Mad- 
ison Co. , 111. , and one in N. H. called Moultonville and 
one township in N. H. called Moultonborough. " 



THE MOULTON FAMILY 

Early Settlers in Massachusetts 



-p OBERT MOULTON was sent over in the fleet 
-*-^ with Higginson to Salem in 1629, by the Home 
Company, with orders to commence ship building. 
There were seven other ship building carpenters in the 
fleet and during the first season they built three shallops 
on Salem Neck. (Found in History of Salem.) 

Moulton had charge of the work. He soon removed 
to Charlestown where he was made freeman in 1631. 
He was one of the first selectmen of that town and 
was representative to the first General Court in 16^4. 
He came back to Salem in 1637 and in that vear was 
disarmed because he was a friend of Wheelwright, 
who was a father-in-law to Anne Hutchingson. 

<' Moulton did a large business, not only in ship 
carpentering, but also in exporting ship timber, for 
which purpose he cut off all the timber on Salem Neck 
pasture (Upham) and G<jat Hill in Beverly, of which 
he had a deed. " (John I. Baker.) 

He was at one time in partnership with Robert Baker, 
one of the ships' carpenters that came in the fleet with 
him. Baker owned Baker's Island and Moulton the 
Misery Island in Salem Harbor, (Tradition in Baker's 
family) formerly called Moulton's Misery because at 
an early date the ship and crew of the R. S Rantoul 

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were lost on it. Moukon's house in Salem, stood on 
the northern iide of Essex St. where it joins Boston 
St., i. e. BufFum corner, and the site of the cellar can 
be seen in the garden of his descendant, Robert BufF- 
um, of Upham. 

He was the first deacon of the first church in Salem. 
He died in Wenham in 1665. (Annals of Salem.) 
In his will, which was probated Jan. 20, 1666, he 
mentioned his son Robert, daughter Dorothy Edwards 
and grandson Robert BufFum. He came from the 
eastern part of England. 

Thomas Moulton with his wife Jane came to 
Charlestown in 1631. They had six children: 

1. John, born 1633. 

2. Martha, born 1634. 

3. Hannah, born 1641. 

4. Elizabeth, born 1642. 

5. Jacob. 

6. Mary. 

John Moulton, husbandman of Newbury, came 
in April, 1634. He brought five children: 

1. Henry. 

2. Mary. 

3. Annie. 

4. jane. 

5. Bridget. 

and two servants. In the ship with him came Widow 
Mary Moulton with two servants. One of them 
married Marriam Moulton; all were from Ornsby, 
Norfolk Co. near Great Yarmouth, England. John's 
age was 38, Mary's 38, Marriam's 23. 

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Thomas Moulton, with wife Martha, were in 
Newbury in 1637 and removed to Hampton, N. H. 
the same year. Probably followed Wheelwright when 
he was banished. Children; 

1. Thomas, born 1638. 

2. Daniel, born 164 1. 

Most of the New Hampshire and Maine Moultons 
are supposed to have descended from this Thomas. 

His descendant. General Moulton, bought a large 
tract of land at the head of Lake Winnipissogee and 
settled Moultonboro (Wm. S. Moulton.) It is sup- 
posed that Jeremiah Moulton, of York, Maine, was 
one of his younger sons. Jeremiah vi^as born in 1650, 
was represenative to General Court in 1692 and was 
afterwards one of the Governing Council. He died 
in 1727, aged 77. 

William Moulton came in 1637, aged 20 years. 
He was a servant of Robert Page, of Ornsby, England 
and afterwards married his daughter Margaret. 

James Moulton, brother of Robert and probably 
of the Charlestown Thomas. He was born in the 
eastern part of England in 1602. He married Mary 
and had three children : 

1. James, christened in Salem, Nov. 7, 1637. 

2. Samuel, " " Oct. 25, 1642. 

3. Mary or Marah, married James Friend, 
December 12, 1662. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

James was admitted an inhabitant of Salem, June 7 

1637; made a freeman March, 1637. He joined thg 

church in December of the same year. He was 

granted by the town of Salem, eighty acres of land, 

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of which eight were to be meadow land, October 9th., 
1639. In the same year he witnessed a deed of Sarah 
Scarlet. (Pro. Rec, 2:12.) 

In a list of persons among whom the marsh and 
meadow lands were divided in 1640, his share was 
three-fourths of an acre, he having at that time a family 
of five persons. In 1646 he was in Wenham and 
was sworn as a constable. At the first town meeting 
held in Wenham, 1654, he was chosen Graineryman. 
In 1657 he paid the largest tax in Wenham. He w^s 
chosen deacon of the Wenham Church in 1674. 
His will was dated February 26th., 1678. Amount 
of estate, four hundred and fifty-six pounds; with one 
exception the largest in Wenham. He gave five 
pounds to Harvard College, five pounds to the Wen- 
ham Church and five pounds to Rev. Gerish, the 
pastor. (Rec. Ips. series 4 :3 19. ) 

His home stood on the southern side of the road 

leading from Wenham to Topsfield, just west of the 

straits and near the hill that still bears his name. The 

house was torn down by Colonel Paul Porter in 1821. 

SECOND GENERATION 

James Moulton the Second, son of James First was 
christened in Salem, November 7, 1637; made a 
freeman September n, 1665; went to Wenham with 
his father and died October 24, 1696. His will was 
probated December 14, 1696, in which he gave his 
wife Elizabeth the improvement of the house lands and 
mentioned sons and Elizabeth Adams. Joined the 
church the loth. of February, 1662. His wife died 
July 14th , 1703. 

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He had tour children: 

1. John, born in April, 1665. 

2. Jonathan, born in 1666. 

3. William. 

4. Elizabeth. 

John and Jonathan were executors. Amount of 
estate, two hundred and fifteen pounds, fifteen shillings 
and six pence. 

THIRD GENERATION 

John Moulton, First, son of James Second, was 
born in 1665. He was married August 16, 1693 
by Rev. Hale, of Beverly, to Sarah Conant, daughter 
of Lot and granddaughter of Roger Conant. (Bev- 
erly records, page 61.) 

The above John Moulton first preambulated the 
boundry between Beverly and Wenham May, 17 18. 
His estate amounted to three hundred and twenty -four 
pounds and seventeen shillings; administered on Dec. 
18, 1728, by John Moulton and John Herrick. of 
Beverly. His children were: 

1. Mary, born June 10, 1696, married John 
Bingham, December 6. 1721. 

2. John, born October i, 1698. 

3. Abigail, born March 27, 1701. 

4. Josiah, born July 16, 1703, died March 
17, 1730. 

5. Hannah, born April I, I 706, married Joseph 
Ayres February 25, i 7 3 7 or March 9, 1738. 

6. Sarah, born August 29, 1709, married 
Moses May, 20th. of May, 1728. 

7. Samuel, born October 19, 17 10, married 
Sarah Fish, February 23, 1735. 

8. Benjamin, born October 7, 171 I, married 
Tabitha Howard, Ipswich, July 31, 1740. 



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FOURTH GENERATION 
John Moulton, Second, son of John First was born 
October i, 1698. Gave notice of intentions to 
marry Mary Hannah Kilham, of Wenham, January 

28, 1729. Married second time Sarah who 

died January 3, 1744. Estate eighty-five pounds, 
four shillings and six pence. Administered December 
8> 1755- (Pro. record 33, i to 9.) He signed a 
paper in 1720 requesting Rev. Ward to accept the call 
of the Wenham Church. Children: 

1. Jonathan, born January 29, 1736. 

2. John, all that is known of John is that he 
settled the estate of John Second, 
Sarah, born January 5, 1732, married Bert 

Hvinall, of Topsfield, December 8, 1750. 
Hannah, born April 27, 1735. Joined the 
church January 10, 1762. 
5. Josiah, born October 31, 1739. 
FIFTH GENERATION 
Jonathan Moulton, son of John Second, was born 
January 29, 1736-7 and married May 21, 1760. 
He resided on the farm cleared by the first James, 
Billy Moulton. He married Mary Tarbox; born 
March 12, I 738, daughter of Deacon Samuel Tarbox 
of Wenham. He served as a sergeant in the Revol- 
utionary war in Captain John Dodge's company, in 
a regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob Gerish. The 
warrant was dated June 2, 1778. He was a portly 
light complexioned man; "an excelent man but no 
driver" — John Conant. "A very clever man and a 
great joker." "A very even tempered man." — Han- 
nah Friend and Betsey Hood. Said Dr. Dudley Dodge 

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"I knew your grandfather well and a nice man he was 
too. He was a farmer and skipper of a fisherman. (?) 
I knew his sons John, Jonathan, Billy and the rest, 
seven of them." 
Children: 

1. Thomas, drowned in Salem harbor by the 
upsetting of a pleasure boat, aged 19 years. 

2. John, born December 31, 1762. 

3. Jonathan, born 1765. 

4. Tarbox, born 1767. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Daniel. 

7. Billy, born in 1775. 
Children of Deacon Samuel Tarbox : 

1. Mary, born March 12, 1738, married 
Jonathan Moulton. 

2. Rebecca, born September 20, 1739, niarried 
Josiah Moulton. 

3. Anna, born March 4, 1742, married Daniel 
Conant . 

4. Eunice, born 1744, married George Ray- 
mond. 

5. Susannah, married Samuel Raymond. 

7. Lydia, born 1753, married Richard Hood. 

8. Robert Cue, born 1746 
(From History of the Tarbox Family.) 

SIXTH GENERATION 

Captain John Moulton was the second son of 

Jonathan, born December 31, 1762; married Miss 

Davison, of Wenham, June, 1785. She died March 

27, 1788, leaving one son, John, born January 11, 

1788, in Beverly. This son died at Kingston, Jamaica 

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of yellow fever September, 1801, while acting as 
cabin boy for his father. 

Captain John's second wife was Mrs. Sally Springer 
a cousin to his first wife, born 1761. Her maiden 
name was Sally Weber. She had previously married 
a Captain William Springer, an Englishman. She had 
one daughter, Sally, "Widow Oliver". 

Children by second marriage: 

1. William Springer, born October 23, 1796. 

2. Charles, born July 16, 1799, died October 
6, 1805. 

His second wife died April 25, 1806, aged 45. 
Mary Bailey, his third wife, was born in Rowlev, 
September 15, 1775- They were married July 22, 
1808. Children by third marriage: 

1. Augustus, born May 31, 1809. 

2. Charles, born July 3. 18 ti. 

3. John, born May 9, 1813, di:d January 16, 

1814. 

4. John, born September 26, 1814, died Aug- 
ust 23, 181 5. 

5. Mary, born August 3, 1816, died February 
4. 1817. 

6. Eben Hobson, born February 14, 181 8. 
Captain John died of dysentery September 24, 

1824. 

Sketch of Life of Captain John Moulton. 
When a lad he joined a party of boys who were 
skating on Wenham pond. Several fires were kindled 
and late in the evening a cat let loose by a boy, ran 
directly toward one of the fires and all of the boys 
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THE MQULTON FAMILY 

the weakened ice gave way and that one was drowned. 
The second in pursuit, John Moalton, turned as the 
water flowed round his feet and escaped. He never 
skated afterwards. 

When under fourteen years of age, though full 
grown, he was allowed to serve in the Revolutionary 
Army as a substitute for his father, who had been drafted 
soon after his discharge from a term of voluntary ser- 
vice and whose family and business had suffered from 
his absence from home. The young man served nine 
months on Long Island and the Jerseys. A part of 
the time he was under Washington. He was in the 
engagements on Long Island and at Brandywine. He 
suffered much from cold and hunger. 

Afterwards he shipped with the noted privateer. 
Captain Hugh Hill, as cabin boy. On the first day 
out the Captain explained to him the names and uses 
of some parts of the rigging, but finding on the second 
day the boy had forgotten some things he had told him, 
he gave him a sound flogging ending with the remark; 

"there d ye, see if you will forget what the 

halyards are again." He did not forget. 

At the close ot the war he continued to go to sea; 
once he was wrecked on Cape Cod, loosing everything 
but the clothes he stood in. Another time the ship in 
which he was returning from Europe foundered and 
the crew, taking to the boat, lived fourteen days on an 
allowance of two dates and a little water apiece per 
day. 

Learning navigation in the forecastle he rapidly rose 
to be a master marine. In that capacity he visited the 
principal places in the southern states and the West 

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T H E MOULTON FAMILY 

Indies; also Bristol, Havre, Bilboa, Lisbon, Oports 
and manv of the Spanish, French and Italian ports ot 
the Mediterranean Sea. 

Before the passage of the embargo act, while on a 
voyage from the West Indies to Europe, he was cap- 
tured by a vessel commanded by a Frenchman and 
bearing the French flag. He was carried into Havana 
where the ship and cargo were confiscated. He owned 
one-fourth of the ship and one-third of the cargo. 
All was lost . 

After giving up a seafaring life he engaged in agri- 
cultural pursuits, «'but while the merchant vessels of 
the Northeast were rotting at the wharfs", it was 
difficult for the most experienced to dig a living from a 
Wenham farm. His success in an almost untried 
business was not marked. He lost one thousand dol- 
lars bv the failure of his brother Tarbox. He did not 
succeed in getting a pension for his service in the army, 
because the only man he could find who was in his 
company did not remember him. He failed to get 
recompence for his losses at Havana under the Spanish 
claim, because the Commissioners decided that the 
nationality of the ship that captured him was deter- 
mined by the flag she bore. His last days were 
embittered by these losses and dissapointments and also 
by poverty and failing health. He died with dysen- 
tery September lo, 1824. 

Personal appearance. He was five feet nine inches 
tall. Temperament, nervo-sanguine. Hair and beard 
at sixty-two, white. Aunt Grant, whose husband's 
first wife was a sister to John Moulton's first wife, said; 
"when he was a young man his hair was as red as a 

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beet and his face was as red as his hair." His fore- 
head was high; eyes large and blue and deep set; nose, 
large; figure, spare and rather stooping; gait, rolling 
and long strided. Though not a handsome man his 
general expression was calm, thoughtful, and kindly. 

Acquirements. Though he had but few educational 
advantages, he was, in his own neighborhood, an 
authority in all matters relating to legal and business 
forms and usuages. From extensive reading of history 
and books of travel, as well as from his own wander- 
ings, he had learned much of ' the world and its 
inhabitants. He was one of the most active proprie- 
tors of the Wenham Library and among the library 
books, he enjoyed Addison, Swift and Sterns best. 

He could read French readily and had some know- 
ledge of Spanish and Portugees. He excelled in 
figures. Aunt Grant said; "when he lived in Isaac 
Woodberry's house (R. N. Lee's) he taught a private 
school in Lower Beverly to instruct young men in 
arithmetic, geometry, navig-ation and surveying. 
"When chosen a member of the board of selectmen 
and assessors in Wenham, he usually did all the figur- 
ing and when not chosen he usually m.ade the taxes 
for those that were."— Mary Moulton. Isaac Babson 
said; "I never knew anybody that could rekon in his 
head as quickly as Cousin John," their grandmothers 
were sisters, "he did'nt have to rekon he could guess 
near enough. Once he came into the brickyard where 
I was at work and Uncle Francis asked him to guess 
how many bricks there were in the kiln, he walked to 
the end of the kiln, stood a moment, and I'll be darned 
if he did'nt guess the number to a brick." "He was 

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a Federalist in politics and in relig-ion, though nomin- 
aly orthodox, his views were liberal." — Anna Potter. 

"He used tobacco freely but in eating and drinking 
he was very temperate." — Mary Moulton. 

"In his younger days he was very quick tempered, 
but in after life he so far overcame this fault, that it was 
considered almost impossible to provoke him to anger." 
— Hannah Moulton, his brother's widow. 

"1 sailed with Captain Moulton two voyages as 
cook and he was the best man that I ever sailed with. 
He could' nt have treated me any better if I had been 
a white man." — Robert Arnold, of Beverly, a negro. 

William S. Moulton, son of Captain John Moul- 
ton, was born October 13, 1796. Married Mary 
Ann Porter, daughter of Colonel Paul Porter, of 
Wenham, August 13, 1819. Died February. 1880. 
Marv Ann Porter, born January, 1799, Died April, 
1880. Children: 

1. William Porter, born October 8, 1820, died 
December 25, 1835, from inflammation of 
the bowels. 

2. Charles Volney, born in Lynn, September 
12, 1822, died at Boxford, November 20, 
1891. 

3. Henry, born in Wes:brook, Maine, Septem- 
ber 21, 1824. Master marine and farmer. 
Married Lydia Spiller of Boxford, where he 
now lives. 

4. Nathan Harris, born in Westbrook. Maine, 
Dijcember 20, 1826. Married Abbie Davis 
of Dover, New Hampshire, March, 27, 
18^1. She was born in Strathford, New 
Hampshire. He died of consumption in 
1854. He was a mason, shoemaker and 

cloth dresser. At one time he was in busi- 
ness with his father in Charlestown. 

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THE MOULTON FAMILY 

5. Paul Porter, born at Westbrook, November, 
1828. Died in infancy. 

6. George Otis, born at Lynn, January 27, 
I 83 I . Married Cynthia Becker, of Dover, 
New Hampshire, February 14, 1857. He 
is an engineer and resides in Danvers. 

7. Lucy Cetena, born in Wenham, August 9, 
1834 or '35. Died there of consumption 
1864. 

8. William Porter, born in Wenham, Decem- 
ber 16, 1837. Married Rebecca S. Dudley, 
of Wenham, September 6, 1862, who 
died in Stuart, April 4, 1897. Editor of 
Stuart Herald, Stuart, Iowa. 

9. Albert, born June 19, 1840. 
Children of Nathan Harris Moulton : 

1. Henry A., born February 15, 1852. 

2. Loretto Isabel, born February 25, 1854, 
married A. D. Trout 1885. 

Children of William Porter Moulton: 

1. Nettie Louise, born in Stuart, Iowa, August 
3, 187 I. Married Albert C. Griffin Sep- 
tember 2, 1902. 

2. Benjamin Crofoot, born in Stuart, Iowa, 
December 8, 1873. 

3. Ruth Adelaide, born in Stuart, Iowa, Jan- 
uary 19, 1875. 

4. Myron Dudley, born in Stuart, Iowa, May 
31, 1878. Married Anna Conger April 
5, I902. 

Mr. William S. Moulton, of Lynn, Massachusetts, 
and Miss Mary Ann Porter, of Wenham, entered 

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THE MOULTON FAMILY 

their names and intention of marriage with me 'August 
7, 1 8 19, and were posted as the law directs the 8th. 
of the same month. Gave a certificate nth., same 
month. — ^John Dodge, Town Clerk. 

Charles Moulton, son of Captain John Moulton, 
married Matilda Lummas 1834, she died 1837 or' 38. 

Children: 

1. Charles Lummas, born June 8, 1835, mar- 
ried Catherine Phillbrook, June 8, 1857. 

2. Alonzo Grafton, born September 23, 1836, 
drowned off Baker's Island August 22, 1857 

Married second time, Abbie Cole, who was born 
1 8 19, died December 12, 1847. They had one 
child, John Francis, born February 3, 1841. He 
married Lucy O. Giles, December 15, 1859. 

Married third time, Ann Cole, November 1848. 
She was born October 4, 1821, died May 31, 1871. 

Children: 

1. Albert, born July 30, 1850, died October 
TO, 1850. 

2. Abbie Ann, born May 13, 1852. 

3. Matilda, born August 24, 1854, died Oc- 
tober 10, 1854. 

4. Matilda Lummas, born June 13, 1856, died 
October 3, 1857. 

5. Henry Cole, born May i, i860. 

6. Mary Elizabeth, born September 26, 1863, 
died October 11, 1863. 

Hervey Moulton, son of Charles Moulton, married 
Ida M. Jenness October 6, 1897. 

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Children of Charles Lummas Moulton: 

1. Alonzo G., born April i, 1859, married 
Grace E. Bradley. 

2. Alice L., born August 17, 1861, died Sep- 
tember 16, 1885. 

3. Lewis E., born May 11, 1863. 
Children of Alonzo G. Moulton: 

1. Lulu E. born July i, 1884. 

2. Charles F., born May 25, 1888. 

3. Alice L,, born July 15, 1890. 

4. Maud C, born November 21, 1892. 
Children of John Francis Moulton: 

1. Frank F., born March, 21, i860, married 
Anna McHall September 24, 1903. 

2. Nellie A., born March 24, 1862, married 
Fred B. Walker July 2, 1884. 

3. Fanny A., born October 27, 1865, married 
Sheldon Thompson January n, 1888. 
They have one child, Sheldon Thompson, 
born January 13, 1890. 

Augustus Moulton, son of Captain John Moul- 
ton, was born May 31^ 1809; married Julia Ann 
Pressy, of Amesbury, December 25, 1841. She 
was born in 18 12 and died March, 1877 at the Bos- 
ton City Hospital, after an operation for cancer. 

Children: 

1. Julia Ellen, born October, 1842, married 
George W. Taylor. 

2. Henry Percy, born November, 1854, died 
December 5, 1904. Married Hattie Stock- 
er in 1876. 

3. John Augustus, born November, 1846, 
married Maria Wallis October, 187 1 

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Children of Henry Percy Moulton: 

1. Edith Foster, born 1877. 

2. Susie Pressy, born 1878. 

3. Henry Phillip, born 1S79. 

4. John Richard, born 1881. 
Children of John Augustus Moulton: 

1. Henry Augustus, born 1872, married Annie 
J. Caldwell, 1893. 

2. Mary Lizzie, born 1874, married Winslow 
P. Goldsmith 1895. One child, Harold 
Moulton. born 1896. 

3. Albert Lawrence, born 1878, married Louise 
Bannister 1900. One child, Jennie Louise 
born 1 90 1. 

Eben Hobson Moulton, youngest son of Captain 
John Moulton, born February 14, 18 18, married 
Irene Conant, April 13, 1847, ^'^° ^^^ born July 14, 
1825. He died November 19, 1894. Children: 

1. Lorenzo Gordon, born February 7, 1848, 
married Annie Maria Palmer January i, 1874 
One child Lillie Bell, born ]\Iarch 5, 1876; 
studied law, admitted to the bar 1903. 

2. Mary Ellen, born April zr^, 1849. 

3. Charles Standley, born February 19, 1851, 
died August 16, 1853. 

4. Sarah Francis, born March 5, 1853, mar- 
ried George Peabody Stiles, of Salem, Feb- 
ruary 4, 1884. He died April 25, 1890. 

5. Walter Standley, born August 21, 1861, 
married Lizzie L, Proctor, of Lynn. He 
died September 9, 1894. 

6. Arthur Augustus, born August 3, 1863, 
married Caddie Dewey, of Salt Lake City, 
June 20, 1888. 

7. Roger Conant, born August 7, 1867, died 
August 12, 1867. 

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Children of Sarah Francis Stiles: 

1. Irene Grey, born March 28, 1886. 

2. Arthur D., born January 4, 1888. 
Children of Arthur Augustus Moulton: 

1. Arthur Conant, born July 9, 1890. 

2, Walter Stanley, born September, 1893. 
Jonathan Moulton, of Beverly^ a sailor, ship- 
master and grocer, married Hannah Wyatt, of Danvers. 
He died in 1808, aged 4-^. She died in 1859, ^g^d 
91 years, 10 months and 15 days. They had one 
child, Polly, who married Captain Thomas Vincent, 
of Beverly; both died in Lynn. 

Children of Polly Vincent: 

1 . Captain Jesse. 

2. Jonathan, born 1800, died 1875: married 
Nancy Troak. 

3. Lucy, born i 8 i 5 . 

4. George, born 1817. 

Thomas, Frederick and Henry were drown- 
ed at sea. Elias and another Thomas died 
at sea. 
George and Lucy ("Nugent) still live in Lynn. 
Children of Jonathan Vincent: 

1. John, born i 832. 

2. Elizabeth (Perkins), born 1834. 

3. Frederick, married Adams;' died in 

Salem by falling through a window. He 
was over eighty years old. 

Children of Frederick Vincent: 

1. Alice L. , book-keeper. 

2. Augustus H., teacher. 

3. D. Warren, reporter. Col. 

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Elizabeth, married Samuel Ober, of Wenham, in 
1803. He was killed by lightning. Children: 

1. ]alh, married Pinkham, of Salem. 

2. Emily, married Kilham, lives in Beverly. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Oliver, killed in the Rebellion. 

Tarbox Moulton, of Wenham and Beverly was 
a master marine and mei chant. Married Sally Wallis 
in 1805, he being thirty-eight and she eighteen. He 
failed in business and vas so crushed in spirit that he 
never recovered and iied of consumption in 1825, 
aged fifty-eight years. His wife died in 1836, aged 
forty-nine years. Children: 

1. Henry, born August 10, 1806. Harness 
maker; went to New York. 

2. Sally, born June 20, 1808. Married in 
Lynn. 

3. Elizabeth Wallis, born 18 10, married Ed- 
mund Coffin. 

4. Mary A., born 1812, married John Tarbox. 
She and all her children are dead. 

5. Charles, born 18 15; carpenter. Died in 
California. 

6. Joshua, born September 5, 18 17; photo- 
grapher in Salem. 

7. " George, born 1820; stairbuilder, Boston. 

8. Hannah, born 1822, married Bier, of Wor- 
cester, Massachusetts. 

9. Abby, born 1824, died 1847. 

Samuel Moulton, removed to Lyman, Maine, 
when a young man. Married Jerusha Dodge, of 
Beverly. He was a carpenter and farmer; was tall, 

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red-faced and possessed considerable energy. He was 
a Methodist, the only one of seven brothers that 
belonged to the church. Children: 

1. Jefferson, farmer and sheriff of York County, 
Maine. 

2. Jerusha; dead. 

3. Polly. 

4. Charles, school teacher and farmer. 
Daniel Moulton, lived on the old James Moulton 

homestead and took care of his mother. At her death 
he produced some legal document that gave him pos- 
session of the farm. His brothers, believing their 
mother had been unduly influenced, were indignant 
and he moved to Amherst, New Hampshire. He 
sold the farm to Colonel Paul Porter. He married 
first, Naomi Dodge, of Wenham and afterwards an- 
other wife in New Hampshire. In all he had twelve 
children, one of them was «'Our Mutual Friend," 
Frank Moulton, of Brooklyn, New York. 

Billy Moulton was a shoemaker, seaman and ship- 
master. He was large in size, florid in complexion, 
genial in disposition, an inveterate reader and tobacco 
chewer. He married Mary Lunt, of Newburyport 
and lived in Wenham, Beverly, Hamilton, Boston and 
Vermont. He died in Vermont at the residence of 
his daughter, Harriott, aged over eighty years . 

Children: 

1. Thomas, born in Beverly, November 1798 
He was a mason. Died in Boston. 

2. Catharine, born in Beverly, July 1800, died 
1803. 

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3. Charlotte, born in Wenham, married Mc- 
Allister of Boston. Died there in 1879; 
left one son. 

4. Harriot, married McAllister's brother and 
moved to V. L. 

5. Elizabeth, married Blanchard and went 
to Ohio. 

6. Louessa, married Kimball, a jeweler of 
Boston. 

7. Samuel, born 18 17 or '19. He was born 
in Wenham but at an early age removed to Hamilton 
where he was distinguished for scholarly traits. The 
school committee advised his father to take him out of 
school, not for any fault, but because in study he was 
in advance of his teacher. He served about three 
years in Boston to learn the harnessmakers trade, but 
having trouble with his employer, he left to seek his 
fortunes in the far west. When heard from he was 
teaching school in Kansas; he married there. 

Studying between schools, he was admitted to the 
bar and soon afterwards was practicing in Vardalia, 
Illinois. He has been a member of the Legislature, 
Judge in the State's Courts and has served in Congress 
three terms. 

As the dates of the death of John Moulton's first 
wife and of his marriage to his second are unknown, 
it would be doubtful whether the first or second woman 
was the mother of his children, were it not that tradi- 
tion settled the doubt in favor of his first wife; at least 
in the case of Jonathan. It is known that Captain 
|ohn Monlton and Billy Moulton both claimed to have 
Kilham blood in their veins; that Dr. Daniel Kilham 

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when he visited Captain John, usually called him 
Cousin and that Dr. Kilham prior to 1824 gave Cap- 
tain John a paper containing the geneology of the 
Moukon and Kilham families, showing their connec- 
tion by marriage and the relationship between the two 
parties. This paper is lost but Billy Moulton, Mary 
Baily Moulton and William S. Moulton agree sub- 
stantially in making these statements. 

JosiAH Moulton married Rebecca Tarbox, a sister 
to his brother Jonathan's wife. She marked the date 
of her birth, 1739, on a sampler which is now in 
possession of Henry A. Moulton. of Wenham. 

Josiah v.'as shot just outside of Salem Harbor during 
the Revolutionary War, in an engagement between a 
letter of marque, on which he served, and a British 
frigate. A ball struck a jackknife in his pea-jacket 
pocket and drove that into his side. He died as he 
was landed on the wharf in Salem. (Traditional.^ 
He left two daughters, Mary and Rebecca. Mary 
married Colonel Paul Porter. Rebecca married Dea- 
con Nathaniel Kimball, both of Wenham. Mary 
was born 1775. Josiah was a blacksmith. 

William Moulton, third son of the second James, 
was born in Wenham. His first wife, Mary, died 
March 3, 1694. He was married the second time to 
Jane Conant, daughter of Excise of Beverly, July 
4, 1695. She was baptised in the First Church, June 
20, 1675. They went to Windham, Connecticut 
with their father Excise but they afterwards came back 
to Ipswich, where he died 1763. Children: 

I. William, born at Windham 1696; died 
same year. 

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2. William, born at Windham November, 
1697; husbandman. 

3. James, born at Windham July, 1700; shoe- 
maker. 

4. Daniel, born at Ipswich January, 1703. 
Had two children, Sarah and Elizabeth. 

5. Sarah, born at Ipswich January, 1705; mar- 
ried Jonathan Clinton. 

6. Caleb, born at Ipswich, 1709; cooper. 

7. Lucy, born at Ipswich, 17 12. 

8. Nathaniel, born at Ipswich, 17 16, died 
in 1735. 

Mary, the widow of the above William's brother 
Jonathan, died October 22, 1728. 

Samuel Moulton, second son of the first James, 

went to Wenham with his father; married Sarah , 

November 30, 1665, He, with four others, were 
drafted t'roni Wenham to service in the expedition 
against the Narragansetts in Rhode Island. He mar- 
ried the second time, Mrs. Elizabeth Glover, only 
daughter of Edward Norris, Clerk of Salem, in i698. 
He lived in Rehoboth. 

Mary Moulton, daughter of the first James, mar- 
ried James Friend, of Wenham, son of John Friend, 
the first of that name in town December iz, 1662, 

Ebenezer Moulton was expelled from the church 
in Brimfield, Massachusetts, for being a Baptist. He 
then commenced preaching the new doctrine, when 
he was arrested and put in jail for breaking the peace, 
Robert Moulton, his brother, sympathised with him 
and he was also expelled from the church, though he 
had served the town as Clerk, Selectman and Repre- 

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sentative. This happened about 1730. (History 
of Brimfield.) 

THE TARBOX FAMILY. 

The Tarbox name is supposed to come from the 
town of Tarbocic, eight miles from Liverpool. Tar- 
bock is a corruption of the Danish Thoro-beck or 
brook, from a little river that runs through the town. 
Some, however, think it is a Huguenot name from 
Tabaux or Tabeaux. 

Deacon Samuel Tarbox, was born October i, 
171 5, married Mary Cue, April 30, 1732. Elected 
deacon in 1760; died 1775. He lived in the last 
house in Wenham toward Topsfield and owned a large 
farm and one slave. He had five daughters; one mar- 
ried Richard Hood, two married Moultons, two others 
married Raymonds, brothers of Colonel John W. 
Raymond's great-grandtather. One of the Raymond 
brothers went to Lyman, Maine and the others lived 
in Beverly. Captain Thomas was a son and Mrs. 
Shadrock Fisk and William A. Foster's first wife were 
grand-daughters of Deacon Samuel Tarbox. 

Colonel Paul Porter, who married Mary Moulton, 
the grand-daughter of Deacon Tarbox, handed down 
this saying of his: "having traveled all over the world, 
I am satisfied if a man can't get a living in Essex 
County, Massachusetts, he can't anywhere." 

Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, President of the New 
England Genealogical Society and also the American 
Col. and Educational Society, furnished the following 
genealogy of the Tarbox Family, of Wenham. 

John Tarbox was in Lynn in 1639. He had two 
sons, Samuel and John. Samuel married first Rebec- 

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ca Armatage, then Exptrience Look. By the first 
wife he had six children and by the second, twelve. 
One of the children by the second wife was Thomas 
Taibox, born June 8, 1684. He married Esther 
Edwards, February 22, 1707. He lived in Wen- 
ham and was known as Captain Thomas; his father 
died in 1 7 1 5 and his mother went to live with him 
in Wenham, where she died March 2, 1738, aged 
eighty-four years. Her gravestone with inscription 
stands near the entrance to the old Wenham burying 
ground. Captain Thomas had nine children: the 
second and fifth sons were deacons. Also Captain 
Samuel Tarbox, born October i, 1715, died April 
30, 1784, joined the church February, 10, 1738. 
Experience Look, born 1654, was the danghter of 
Thomas Look, of Lynn. Her family removed to 
Martha's Vineyard, where the name is common. 

Henry Herrick, second son of Henry, lived on the 
old homestead. He married first Lydia Woodbury, 
and in 1690, the Widow Giddings. He was a juror 
in the witch trials at Salem in 1692. Died 1702. 

Mary Herrick, daughter of Henry, born July 20, 
1700, died 1790. She married Robert Cue of Wen- 
ham, 1718. He died 1737 or '39. According to 
Dr. Herrick' s Genealogy, she married Deacon Samuel 
Tarbox, of Wenham, April 20, 1737. 



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sketches of the Lives of the 

Four Sons of Captain 

John Moulton 

/i S the direct descendants of the four sons of 
■^*- Captain John IVloulton are the only ones that 
will care to read this little history of the family, we 
had purposed to secure character sketches of the four 
sons. We have not succeeded in getting as lengthy 
sketches as we wished, but we prefer to let them go 
in as they come to us rather than to supplement them 
with any considerable addition of our own, separated 
as our life has been from theirs. 

From our boyish recollection of Augustus, Charles 
and Eben Moulton, they were the salt of the earth. 
They were the best representatives of the old Puritan 
stock then living. They were men with the courage 
of their convictions and when in the old town of 
Beverly back in the forties, there were but seven men 
who would stand up to be counted for the anti-slavery 
cause, three of them were my uncles. 

WILLIAM SPRINGER MOULTON 

William Springer Moulton was the eldest son 
of Captain John Moulton, of Wenham. He was 
raised on a farm. He received a good common 
school education for those days. Being of studious 
habits and endowed with a splendid memory, he 
made the most of his meager advantages. He 

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also received an academic education at the old 
Mathuem Academy. 

His mother was a devout member of the Bap- 
tist church and wished that her son should be- 
come a minister of that denomination. He de- 
sired to follow the sea, as his father and many 
others of his progenitors had before him. We 
presume that a compromise was effected, as he 
was put to learn the dyer's trade at the Lynn Dye 
House. 

After securing his trade he became the agent 
for this dye house, then very noted, it being one 
of the largest in New England in the first half 
of the nineteenth century. While he was agent 
for the house, the first printing of calico ever 
done in the United States was done there. 

From the dye house village of Lynn he went to 
Waterville, Maine, and began business there for 
himself. His dye house was washed away by a 
flood and he returned to Massachusetts and farmed 
for a time. He then engaged in milling at Danvers 
Port, then called Danvers New Mills. From there 
he returned to his trade, working in Salem and 
then engaged in business for himself in Charles- 
town. The evolution of industry in New England 
was fast eliminating this trade from among the 
profitable callings. The dye house, once a prime 
necessity in every town and village, has long since 
passed away. 

From the dye house he returned to the farm 
and death found him engaged in the same occu- 
pation which he entered as a birthright. 

He was an industrious man all his life. He 
was frugal in his habits, using no tobacco nor in- 
toxicating liquors. Books and newspapers were 
his only indulgences. But he accumulated no 

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wealth and died a poor man. He was devoted to 
his family and gave to them his best effort. Ex- 
cept when called away from his home by his 
business, he spent all his leisure hours at home. 
His passion was the pursuit of knowledge. He read 
everything, but science, history and philosophy 
were his favorite studies; poetry and fiction only 
engaged his attention when there was nothing 
else to read. 

He served his town in almost every capacity. 
He was one of the town school committee for a 
term of years and a member of the board of select- 
men. He was thoroughly informed in town af- 
fairs and in local history he was an oracle that 
was often consulted. He was employed by the 
town to rescue the old town record from oblivion, 
when it had become so dim from age that no 
one not familiar with it and thoi'oughly acquainted 
with the early history of the town and the old 
town names could make out what the faint trac- 
ings on the paper meant. 

Although he wrote easily and pointedly, he 
never was able to express himself orally with sat- 
isfaction to himself, so his voice was seldom heard 
in town meetings except when appealed to for in- 
formation. 

He was a kind and considerate neighbor, a good 
nurse and always helpful in sickness. For years 
he filled the place in the simple life of his neigh- 
borhood, as its barber, undertaker and funeral 
director when death came to their homes. 

His attitude toward the prevailing religious be- 
liefs of his day was that of a skeptic. He rejected 
supernaturalism in all its forms. He accepted 
nothing that his intelligence and common sense 
did not approve. He called himself a "Nothing 

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Nearian." So far as the prevailing creeds of his 
day v,-ere concerned, this was doubtless true, but 
he had very positive convictions upon religious 
and philosophical questions. He was without 
cant or hypocrisy. He made no pretension to 
belief which he did not have; he simply lived his 
life according to his own convictions of right and 
wrong, and accepted without complaint the ostra- 
cism that the intolerant of his generation visited 
upon those who chose to make their own investiga- 
tions and form their own conclusions. 

He played no games, took part in no amuse- 
ments, attended no meetings (except town meet- 
ings), belonged to no organization, mixed in no 
society and had no intimate associates. He was 
satisfied with himself, his ideals, his life, and did 
not attempt to escape the seclusion it brought 
him. 

Individualism, the character of his race, was 
the dominant factor of his life. While it enabled 
him to build for himself a rugged and independent 
character, it limited his development and left the 
softer and better side of his nature dwarfed and 
inassertive. 

In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat in 
his early life. He remained loyal to the party 
until after Jackson's administration. After that 
the dominating power of the slave holder 
in the party drove him to the anti-slavery 
cause and later to the Republican party. 

He loved nature. It was his God. Its eternal 
and unchangeable law was his religion. He found 
more agreeable companionship with it than with 
men. He could not make a musical note, but he 
delighted in the songs of birds, the deep bass of 
the ocean and the rhythm of the forest moaning. 

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He watched all of nature's changing moods. 

He kept a diary from 1824 until his death in 
1880, in which he recorded the weather, the direc- 
tion of the wind and the marking of the thermom- 
eter; the appearance of the first bud of spring, 
the flight of birds, the growth of crops and the 
snows of winter. 

His diary, before us as we write, closed with 
his life. He recorded with his own hand the ap- 
proach of his death. We find written under the 
date of February 21st, 1880, after the record of 
the weather, the word "Sick." February 24th he 
writes "Sicker." February 25th he writes again 
the word "Sicker." February 26th he writes "Sick 
— too sick to keep this account any longer." 

He died February 28th, 1880. Thus ended his 
diary and his life. 

AUGUSTUS MOULTON 

Augustus Moulton was born in Wenham, Massa- 
chusetts, May 31, 1809. He received his education 
in the schools of that town. About the year 1825 
he removed to Beverly. He was a great reader 
and lover of books and had an excellent mem- 
ory. He never sought public office, but he served 
the town as selectman in the trying times of the 
Civil War with credit to himself and the town. 
He was interested in the anti-slavery movement 
from the first, and later a firm believer in the 
prohibition cause. 

He never joined any church, but attended the 
Orthodox Congregational Church of New Beverly. 
He could never accept its creed. The Golden Rule 
was a sufficient revelation of the will of God for 
him and he conformed his life to its teachings to 
the end. 

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He died at Beverly October 31st, 1886. aged 
seventy-seven years, honored and respected. 

CHARLES MOULTON 

The following clipping from a Beverly paper sent 
us soon after the death of Charles Moulton, will serve 
as a brief sketch of his life. As we remember him 
it is far too modest and incomplete to do justice to his 
life and the place that he made for himself in the com- 
munity in which he lived. 

Wc remember him as an uncompromising abolition- 
ist and also as a member of the Baptist Church and 
one of its most active workers. But this sketch does 
not mention this connection and so our statement must 
be taken with a liberal grain of allowance. 

Charles Moulton, a respected and honored citi- 
zen of Beverly, died at his home in Cabot street, 
April 11th, 1901, at the age of eighty-nine years 
nine months and seven days. Mr. Moulton had 
been sick for some time and the end was not un- 
expected, although all that skilled physicians and 
the tender care of his immediate family could do 
for him was done. 

Mr. Moulton was one of the few men left us of 
the old school who were thoroughly honest, upright 
and consistent in all their walks of life. He was 
a strong advocate of temperance, joining the Sons 
of Temperance in 1846 and continuing with the 
organization as long as it was in existence. 

He was identified with the Prohibition party 
from its inception and was at one time the nom- 
inee of the party for state senator and several 
times a candidate for the lower branch, standing 
for principle rather than expecting to l)e elected. 

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He was a butcher and dealer in pork, cattle and 
poultry during the active years of his life, and his 
was a familiar figure in the old Derby market in 
Salem for years. 

He was at one time a member of the board of 
selectmen and was always interested in the wel- 
fare of his town and city and his voice was fre- 
quently heard in town meetings, advocating things 
which he thought were of benefit to the com- 
munity. 

EBEN HOBSON MOULTON 

Eben Hobson Moulton was born February 14th. 
1818, in Wenham. After the death of his father 
he, with his mother and brothers, moved to North 
Beverly, where he resided until his death. 

He was very fond of reading and studying and 
at one time, when quite a young man, taught 
school. In 1842 the young men of North Beverly 
formed a debating society, of which he was elected 
president. He wrote many articles, both prose and 
poetry, which were greatly enjoyed by his friends, 
and was a contributor to the "Liberator" and other 
periodicals. 

He married in 1846 Irene Conant, daughter of 
John Conant and a direct descendant of Roger 
Conant. 

He was identified with the anti-slavery cause, 
voting with the abolitionists, and in 1838 he was 
instrumental in starting a free anti-slavery library 
in North Beverly. He was interested in the tem- 
perance cause, being himself a total abstainer 
from liquor in all forms. 

He was a trustee of the Beverly Public Library 
for a term of years and served the town for many 

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years as a member of the school committee. He 
was a Unitarian and always attended the services 
of that church. When his minister preached his 
funeral sermon he spoke of him as one of the best 
men in his parish and one who had helped him by 
his example and counsel as much as anyone in his 
church. 

He died November 19th, 1894, at the age of sev- 
enty-six. 




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Honorable Henry P. Moulton 



AT a meeting of the members of the bar of Essex 
and Suffolk Counties^ held at Salem April 28th., 
1905, for the purpose of paying their tribute to the 
memory of Henry P. Moulton, the following me- 
morial was adopted. Several speeches followed the 
reading of the memorial address among which was 
one of Justice Loring of the Supreme Judicial Court, 
which paid a very high tribute to the deceased as a 
man and a lawyer. 

Mr. Moulton was born in Beverly and his life 
work was done in Essex county, and there he al- 
ways resided. He was of Puritan ancestry. He 
was a lineal descendant in the eighth generation 
of James Moulton, who was born in England in 
1602. James was a member of the church and a 
freeman in Salem in 1637. In 1646 he lived in 
Wenham, where at the first town meeting he was 
chosen granary-man. He was also a deacon of the 
Wenham church. Henry Percy received his early 
education in the common schools. He attended 
the district school in Beverly and entered the 
Beverly high school, being a m.ember of the first 
graduating class. From the high school he en- 
tered Amherst College in 1861 and graduated with 
his class in 1865. In college he was a diligent and 
conscientious student. He was also a great reader 
of general literature, and while this may have de- 
tracted somewhat from his rank in scholarship, it 

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broadened his mind, rounded out and developed 
his character, and bore an important part in fit- 
ting him for his professional career. Early in his 
college life he determined to make law his pro- 
fession, and that object was always distinctly be- 
fore him. Lack of means compelled him to make 
many sacrifices in order to complete his college 
course, and he was one of the few students who 
boarded themselves; but self-denial came easily 
to him and he never complained, but was always 
jovial and buoyant and confident of the future. 
He was loved by his classmates and respected by 
all, and those who knew him best and appreciated 
his sturdy attainments early predicted for him 
future success in his chosen profession. After 
graduating from college he studied law for three 
years, which was then the usual time devoted by 
students to preparation for entering the profession. 
Upon completion of his studies he was admitted 
to the bar in 18G8 and immediately entered upon 
practice in Essex county. At that time the Essex 
bar contained many able and brilliant members, 
and it was not easy for the young practitioner to 
make headway and the race was a strenuous one. 
Mr. Moulton, however, soon began to take place 
and position at the bar, and to be recognized as 
a real force and as one of the surely coming men. 
He early acquired the confidence of people and 
popularity and was chosen to the legislature from 
Beverly as early as 1870, and served through the 
winter of that year, but his political career was 
brief and apparently not to his taste, and he re- 
turned with renewed vigor to the exclusive prac- 
tice of his profession. He constantly gained in the 
estimation of the bar and the bench as a lawyer, 
and in the confidence of those who were concerned 

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in litigation, and witliout brealv or interruption ad- 
vanced until he stood in the very forefront of the 
legal profession of Essex county and the common- 
wealth; and for a long period preceding his death 
he was probably concerned, on one side or the 
other, in the majority of the important cases in 
Essex county. 

In 1882 he was appointed district attorney for 
Essex county and served one term in that capacity, 
bringing to the office the same untiring industry, 
conscientious service and unquestioned integrity 
that had always characterized his general practice. 
His service as district attorney did not interfere 
with his general practice, which seemed to grow 
Instead of diminish as a consequence of his hold- 
ing this office, and upon his retirement from office 
he was better known, more largely trusted and 
his service more in demand. 

During the administration of Mr. McKinley he 
was appointed United States district attorney, and 
was holding that office at the time of his death, 
performing all the duties of his position and at 
the same time carrying the burden of a large and 
extensive general practice. For six years he was 
president of the Essex Bar Association, and it 
was only at his earnest request that his brethren 
excused him from further service. He was fre- 
quently n>ejitioned as a candidate for high office, 
and undoubtedly could have had a place upon the 
bench had he so chosen, but his love for his pro- 
fession, both for itself and the honorable reward 
that it brought him, deepened as his life advanced, 
and he remained true to its service. 

He married Harriet E. Stocker of Beverly, who 
survives him, as also four children — Edith Foster 
Moulton, who is a graduate of Lasell Seminary; 

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Susy Pressey Moulton, a graduate of the Salem 
High School and of Smith College, Northampton; 
Henry Philip Moulton, who was a student of Am- 
herst College, wiih a special course at Harvard, 
and is now a teacher; John Richard Moulton, a 
gi-aduate of the Salem High School and of Yale 
College, now pursuing the study of law at Harvard 
Law School. 

It is not fitting in a memorial, perhaps, to speak 
too closely of a deceased brother's private and 
home life, nor would we in any way invade the 
sanctity that surrounds the name of home, but the 
beauty and simplicity of our deceased brother's 
home life were known to all. Too much of it 
cannot be said; too little of it had best not be 
said at all. In contradistinction to the common 
aphorism that one should not take home his busi- 
ness cares and troubles, but should leave them 
behind him at the office or the counting room. 
Brother Moulton took them home with him and 
had ever the benefit of the loving and interested 
advice of his wife and the absorbing sympathy of 
the children. Mrs. Moulton had a very clear a\i;i 
accurate knowledge of his business affairs and 
alter his death she clearly showed a keen appre- 
ciation of the characteristics of the different mem- 
bers of the bar that had been associated with her 
husband, and that could only have come from a 
most imtimate detail of the relations of her hus- 
band to the business in which he was concerned 
and to his brethren at the bar. 

Perhaps the chief est of the stimuli of the activ- 
ity of his life was the desire for the welfare of his 
home; the comfort and happiness of the partner of 
his joys and sorrows; the desire that his children 
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success and happiness that might come to them 
from the highest and best education and culture 
which the institutions of the country could afford, 
and in the promise of their future lives, it can be 
truly said that "his works live after him." 

Speaking of him simply as a member of the 
bar, and as an associate of us, his fellow toilers 
in the profession, who today meet in sadness to 
render some tribute to his memory, it may, in a 
word, be said that he died at his post. One of his 
intimate friends has said that when he became 
aware of the fatal character of the disease that 
was fastening itself about his life, and when hope 
of final recovery had gone, he said that he had 
made up his mind to die in the harness, and die 
in the harness he did, in the midst of a long and 
laborious contest at the bar. Fully equipped for 
his work, shirking no duty and rendering to his 
government the benefit of every power and every 
attainment with which his life's work had equipped 
him, dying, not in apprehension or regret, but with 
the light of battle still upon his face. His end 
was sudden and unexpected. We cannot but feel 
that it was untimely. It was as though a great 
battleship, fully armed and equipped and with 
decks cleared for action, had foundered in mid- 
ocean. 

Such is the simple story of a simple life. Its 
field of activity was the office and the court house; 
its unfailing source of happiness — the home. It 
might well be left there. Words cannot add to our 
admiration or deepen our lasting remembrance. 

But it is in accord with long custom that we 
leave behind our dead brother some estimate of 
his character as a lawyer, and a man that, per- 
chance, in after years some beginner searching the 

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records of this court may find inspiration from his 
example, his worth, his characteristics, his labor, 
and take courage to travel the pathway that lies 
before him. 

Mr. Moulton came to the bar well equipped tor 
its work. He possessed a strong and rugged 
physique, an industry that knew no fatigue; hard 
common sense, a keen perception and quick grasp 
of facts, with the power to make from them close 
and logical deductions. His mental faculties were 
well disciplined and under good control. Above 
all he had a genuine love for his profession and 
was eager to engage in its contests. Among his 
chief attributes which became manifest after the 
commencement of his active practice were the 
capacity and willingness to work. Hard work 
with his books; hard work with the facts of the 
cases that came to him; hard work in court in the 
presentation of his case — these were the orders 
of the day for him and the orders for every day. 
His labor was unremitting. He took everything 
that came to him in the way of litigation, and 
seemed to have no choice of clients. The first 
person Vv^ho came to his office to secure his serv- 
ices was the one who secured them. Even after 
success had come to him, and the years of middle 
life had fallen upon him, and when he could well 
have shifted to other shoulders something of what 
we call the burden of drudgery of the profession, 
his work knew no relaxation. Many of those who 
knew him best felt that in the latter years of his 
life he could easily have taken fewer cases and 
perhaps been more choice in their selection with- 
out detriment in his standing as a lawyer or the 
income he received. Had he done thi.s his life 
might have been prolonged. He might have been 

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with us today. But this course was not for him. 
He was determined, even in the face of warnings 
of the encroachment of disease, to work to the 
last, and work he did to the very last day of his 
life. But perhaps he was happier so, for he seemed 
to love labor for labor's sake; at least this is the 
consoling thought. Mr. Moulton was an aggress- 
ive man; always ready tor the fray, seeming to 
rejoice when the conflict was on and never shirking 
a fight. He was not much given to compromise 
and settlement. Confident of his facts and believ- 
ing in his case, he was willing to stake the issue 
upon the verdict of the jury or the ruling of the 
court. But he was a fair fighter. His opponent 
need not fear tricks or surprises. He never dis- 
torted evidence or resorted to the by-play and arti- 
fice that sometimes exert no small influence in a 
jury trial. He knew but one side of a case and 
that was his side. But strong and persistent fight- 
er that he was, his contests never developed bit- 
terness or vindictiveness. He was always consid- 
erate of opposing counsel, ready to oblige and 
grant all reasonable and fair requests. He never 
insisted upon matters of form or non-essentials 
After thirty-five years of practice he left behind 
him no enemy in the profession, and no one was 
nearer the hearts of his brethren. 

In the trial of cases to the jury he was very suc- 
cessful, largely through his native force of char- 
acter. He put his own personality into his case. 
He was so earnest and so thoroughly believed in 
his case that it was easy to make the jury believe 
in it. He had great power in seizing upon the 
Important and turning facts of a case, making 
them prominent, dwelling upon them, almost ham- 
mering them into the minds of the jury. Simplic- 

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ity, directness and force characterized his address- 
es to juries. There was in them little of the ora- 
tor's art, little of the play of imagination, of ap- 
peal to feeling and passion; little of the grace and 
polish of finished oratory. On the other hand, their 
reasoning and logic were admirable. Generally 
we may say they were convincing rather than per- 
suasive; forceful rather than appealing. Above all, 
like everything that Mr. Moulton did and said, 
they were fair, open and honest. They contained 
no misstatements of evidence; no twisting of 
facts; no subtle and unworthy insinuation; rarely 
an appeal to sympathy; never to prejudice. The 
purpose of Mr. Moulton in his remarks to juries 
seems to have been to present an array of facts 
upon which he relied, and by repetition and insist- 
ance to ground them in the mind of the juror, 
and then draw the logical and inevitable conclusion 
and force it home. In doing this he had few 
equals. He wielded the battle-axe with great 
power, but had little use for the rapier. In deal- 
ing with questions of lav\^, he had sound judgment, 
and stated legal propositions clearly and concisely, 
lie was not specially a book or case lawyer, but 
he had a fine conception of the principles of law, 
and readily applied them to the facts. His knowl- 
edge of decided cases was helped by his remark- 
able mem.ory, but he remembered what had been 
somewhere decided, rather than the name of the 
case or the volume in which the decision was to 
be found. His opinion upon a question of law 
was quickly formed, and even when given off-hand 
and without study was generally well supported. 
In the argument of questions of law before the 
supreme court he had the same direct and forceful 
way of presentation as in dealing with facts be- 

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tore the jury. When once he was grounded upon 
a proposition of law in which he believed, he held 
to it with great tenacity, and strove to secure its 
endorsement by the court with the same repetition 
and assistance as that with which he hammered 
an array of facts into the mind of a juryman. 

Mr. Moulton had an unusually large practice be- 
fore other tribunals than the courts, and was fre- 
quently before committees of the legislature, rep- 
resentatives of city and town governments, the 
county commissioners and like bodies. Here ora- 
tory is generally at a discount, appeals out of 
place, mere adroitness in the management of a 
case, or skill in examination and cross-examination 
of witnesses of little value. The marshalling and 
presentation of material facts, plain, logical rea- 
soning, just and fair conclusions, simply urged, 
win the day. Here he was very successful. His 
power in dealing with facts, his direct and positive 
speech, his belief in his cause, stood him in good 
stead, greatly aided, as he was, by his unassuming 
and democratic ways, and possessing, as he did, 
the confidence of men. He had no specialty in the 
law and was always ready to take up the work 
offered, wherever and whatever the forum might 
be. He was frequently in the criminal court, and 
he engaged in criminal practice to a later period 
in life than is usual with lawyers. He was, while 
at the bar, as in college, in constant touch with 
the general literature of the past and of the day, 
and found solace in the lighter English and 
French productions. He remembered what he 
read, and his mind was filled with the best things 
that had been written and were being written. 

But the storehouse of his mind in this regard 
was opened only to his friends, or to those who 

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were fortunate enough to engage him in conversa- 
tion socially and in the leisure hour, and then 
he was charming. The anecdote, the incident, the 
aphorism, the apt quotation, the witty repartee, 
the keen thrust at the weaknesses and foibles of 
humanity, were all there. With such an overflow- 
ing source from which to draw, surprise was often 
expressed that he did not use more ornament and 
flower of speech in his addresses to juries; more 
of illustration, quotation, simile and figure of 
rhetoric. He was once asked the reason for this, 
and replied that his mind was so concentrated 
upon the facts he was striving to bring out and 
enforce, that he had no thought for anything else; 
that he was so absorbed in the salient issues of 
the case, that all else was for the time banished 
from his mind. The trial of a case was a serious 
matter to him. tlis pathway to the juror's mind 
v/as hard, cold facts and merciless logic, and noth- 
ing could swerve him from it. 

But whatever may be said in the attempt to leave 
upon the records some estimate of our brother's 
characteristics as a lawyer, that he was a power 
with Essex county juries all concede. He had 
many sources of strength outside of what he said 
and did at the trial of a cause. He was a man of 
Essex. His ancestors were men of Essex. His 
robust form and striking presence were known to 
all. His sturdy character and blameless life were 
known to all. His interest in all that made for 
the welfare of Essex he had demonstrated. He 
had the confidence of all. It may well have been 
said that as he stood before twelve Essex county 
jurymen, they felt as if one of their own number 
were speaking to them; one whom they could trust 
and were willing to follow. One who would not 

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wittingly deceive them; oue who had some right to 
command and direct them; one who could not, 
by unfair means, seek to lead them to an unright- 
eous verdict. The personality of a lawyer trying 
a jury case is a potent factor for success or fail- 
ure; perhaps not so much today as in the past, 
but in Brother Moulton's day it has played no un- 
important part on many a well fought field. 

His devotion to his profession did not narrow 
him. He was always public spirited, interested 
in all that concerned the welfare of the state and 
citizen. He held pronounced views upon political 
and economic questions; had strong political af- 
filiations and was loyal to his party. Nor did his 
laborious life and success and promotion at the 
bar dwarf his manhood. Simplicity and truth were 
at the foundation of his makeup. He was a real 
man. He dealt with realities. What he seemed, 
that he was, and that he wished always to be. He 
despised sham, conceit and pretense. To the 
weaker or younger brother at the bar he was ever 
considerate and kindly, but to the braggart, the 
blusterer and the pretender he was uncompromis- 
ing in his hostility. He never worshipped at the 
footstool of wealth or prestige, and vv^as incapable 
of fawning or flattery. All the prizes of his life 
had been fairly won in open, honorable contest, 
and for those obtained in other ways he had scant 
regard, no matter who the possessor might be. 
He had no jealousy or envy of the advancement 
of others, and rejoiced when a brother had fought 
his way to fame and fortune. He never sought his 
own success by pulling another down. The covert 
sneer or secret insinuation, by which character 
and opportunity are often sought to be destroyed, 
were strangers to his lips. As he hated sham, 

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so for the show and pai-ade and theatricals of the 
profession he had nothing but contempt. He was 
simple in his tastes, democratic in his ways, mod- 
est and unassuming. Truly a noble character has 
gone from us. As that familiar presence fades 
from view a notable figure at the bar disappears. 
A leader falls. There is a vacancy in our councils 
and a void in our hearts that can never be filled. 

Probably what shall be said here today will be 
the last public v/ords spoken of our brother who 
has gone from us. May they be just to him. May 
they express our love for him as he Vv'as in life 
and will ever be in memory, and our admiration 
for his abilities and character. Above all, may 
they be such as he himself would approve could 
they penetrate the ear of death. The ranks of 
those who came to the bar v/ith him are thinning 
rapidly. The gray head and the furrows left by 
old conflicts mark them as they discharge the 
daily duties of the profession. A few more years 
and their voices will be heard in this court room 
no more forever. One of the ablest, bravest and 
truest has gone a little before. That his memory 
may to some extent, at least, be exempt from the 
oblivion which the evanescent fame of the lawyer 
makes almost inevitable, they unite today with the 
younger brethren, and with one accord respect- 
fully ask that this memorial may have a place 
upon the records of the court. 



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Extracts from the 

Town Records of Wenham, 

Massachusetts 



Hannah, daughter of John Kellum, born April 
29, 1660. 

James Moulton and Elizabeth Adams married 
February 10, 1662. 

James Friend and Marah Moulton married De- 
cember 12, 1662. 

Daniel Rumball, of Salem, blacksmith, for 
thirty pounds sold to James Moulton Sr., of Wen- 
ham, yeoman, forty acres of land formerly being 
the land of George Noole, deceased. Bounded on 
The east by land formerly of Mr. John Fisk and 
now in the tenure and occupation of James Bette. 
On the south side by Richard Kimball's land. On 
the west and north by land of said James Moul- 
ton. January 16, 1664. 

Hannah, daughter of Daniel, born December 21, 
1664. 

James, son of Jsmes Moulton, born January 
^, 1666. 

John, son of James Moulton, born September 
4, 1668. 

James Moulton Sr., sold to James Friend, forty 
acres of upland with all of the thacht pond, the 
which pond lies in his forty acres. Bounded east 
by Mark Bachellor's land and land formerly Mr. 
Fisk's. West by Goodman Lord's land, that was 
Richard Kimball's. North by James Moulton Sr. 
South by Richard Kimball's land and Mr. Fisk's. 
It was 29 June, 1674. 

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Samuel Moulton and Sarah Phele were mar- 
ried April (4) 20, 167S. 

Sarah, daughter of Samuel Moulton, born Feb- 
ruary 12, 1679. 

Sarah, daughter of Samuel Moulton, born De- 
cember 2, 1679. 

Married, William Moulton, of Wenham, and Jane 
Conant, of Beverly, in Salem by Low Cousin, Es- 
quire, July 4, 1695. 

Mary, daughter of John Moulton, by Sarah his 
wife, born June 10, 1696. 

James Moulton Sr., died October, 1696. 

Mary, daughter of John Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born October 1, 1698. 

Rev. John Fisk's land, according to evidence 
given by Samuel Moulton in 1698, then of Reho- 
both, formerly of Wenham. When Samuel Moul- 
ton left Wenham in 1652, he was fifty-seven years 
old. Fisk's land was then bounded by land of 
James Moulton, Samuel Kimball, John Foster and 
Pleasant Pond. At this time, 1698, John Fisk 
and James Moulton were both dead. 

November 24, 1699, an intent of marriage be- 
tween Jonathan Moulton and Sarah Herrick, both 
of Wenham, was published. Gave a certificate 
of it. January 4, 1699. 
— James Moulton, son of William and Jane, born 
July 11, 1700. 

James Moulton, son of William Moulton and 
Jane, born July 19, 1700. 

Abigal Moulton, daughter of John, by Sarah, his 
wife, born March 27, 1701. 

Elizabeth Moulton, widow, died February 14, 
1703 or 1704. 

Josiah, son of John Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born July 16. 1703. 



THE MOULTON FAMIL Y 

Jonathan, son of Jonathan Moulton, by Sarah, 
born April 6, 1704. 

Hannah, daughter of John Moulton, by Sarah, 
his wife, was born April, 1706. 

Samuel, son of Jonathan, by Sarah, his wife, 
born May 10, 1706. Died July 6, 1706. 

Jonathan Moulton, of Wenham, and Sarah Her- 
rick, of Salem, were married by Rev. Joseph 
Green, February, 1708. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Moulton, by 
Sarah, was born April 7, 1708. 

Sarah, daughter of John Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born August 29, 1709. 

Rebeckah, daughter of Thomas Tarbox, by 
Easter, his wife, born October 2, 1709. Died July 
25, 1711. 

Samuel, son of John Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born October 19, 1710. 

Benjamin, son of John Moulton, by Sarah, born 
January 7, 1711 or 1712. 

Sarah, daughter of Jonathan, was born by Sarah, 
his wife, September 2, 1712. 

Sarah, wife of Jonathan Moulton, died Septem- 
ber 2, 1712. 

An intent of marriage between Jonathan Moul- 
ton and Mary Leverit, both of Wenham, was pub- 
lished on May 31, 1713, and gave certificate June 
18, 1713. 

Mary, daughter of Samuel Tarbox, by Elizabeth, 
his wife, born May 29, 1717. 

Mary, daughter of Thomas Tarbox, by Esther, 
his wife, born September 28, 1720. 

John Bengam, of Windham, and Mary Moulton 
were married December, 1721. 

Mary, daughter of Samuel Tarbox, by Eliza- 
beth, his wife, born February 6, 1723 or 1724. 

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William Fisk, of Wenham, yeoman, made his 
will May 15, 1725. Proved March 5, 1727. His 
son Ebin Fisk was to have a residue and be 
executor of his will. He had bought half of his 
father's house in 1712. 

October 22, 1728, Mary, the widow of Jonathan 
Moulton, died. 

This may certify whom it may concern that 
Stephen Patch and Ruth Sloan, both of Wen- 
ham, on October 26, 1728, and Elijah Dodge, of 
Beverly, and Elizabeth Moulton, of Wenham, on 
November 22, 1728, were married by Robert Ward, 
pastor of the church in Wenham. 

November 2, 1728, an intent of marriage be- 
tween Elijah Dodge, of Beverly, and Elizabeth 
Moulton, of Wenham, was published. 

January 23, 1729 or 1730, an intent to marry 
between John Moulton Jr. and Hannah Killam, 
both of Wenham, was published. February 26, 
1729 or 1730. 

February 26, 1729, John Moulton Jr., and Han- 
nah Killam, both of Wenham, were married. 

Josiah, son of John Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, died March 17, 1730 or 1731. 

October 5, 1730, Sarah, daughter of John and 
Sarah Moulton, died. 

Sarah, daughter of John Moulton, by Hannah, 
his wife, born January 5, 1732 or 1733. 

March 13, 1733, Samuiel Moulton and Sarah 
Fisk, of Wenham, were married in Ipswich. 

Samuel, son of Samuel Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born March 19, 1734 or 1735. 

October 9, 1734, an intent of marriage between 
Caleb Moulton, of Ipswich, and Jerusha Fisk, of 
Wenham, was published. 

Hannah, daughter of John Moulton Jr., by Han- 

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nah, his wife, born April 7, 1735. 

Jerusha, daughter of Caleb Moultou, by Jerusha, 
his wife, born ye first day of August, 1735. 

Jonathan, son of John Moulton, by Hannah, his 
wife, born January 29, 1736 or 1737. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Moulton, by 
Sarah, his wife, was born November 18, 173G. 

February 25, 1737, an intent of marriage be- 
tween Joseph Ayers of Ipswich and Hannah Moul- 
ton, of Wenham, was published. They were 
married May 9, 1738. 

Mary, daughter of Samuel Tarbox Jr., by Mary, 
his wife, born March 12, 1737. 

July 13, 1738, Moses May, of Ipswich, and 
Sarah Moulton, of Wenham, were married. 

Unis, daughter of Samuel Moulton, by Sarah, 
his wife, born March 24, 1739. 

Rebekah, daughter of Samuel Tarbox Jr., by 
Mary, his wife, born September 30, 1739. 

Josiah, son of John Moulton Jr., born, by Han- 
nah, his wife, October 31. 1739. 

January 31, 1740 or 1741, an ir.teut of marriage 
between Benjamin Moulton, of Wenham, and 
Tabitha Howard, of Ipswich, was published. 

Anna, daughter of Samuel Tarbox Jr., by Mary, 
his wife, born March 4, 1741 or 1742. 

Benjamin, son of Benjamin Moulton, by Tabitha, 
his wife, born March 9, 1741 or 1742. 

Abel, son of Samuel Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born August 28, 1741. 

Tabathy, daughter of Benjamin Moulton, by 
Tabitha, his wife, born September 10, 1743. 

Sarah, wife of John Moulton, died January 
3, 1744 or 1745. 

Sarah, wife of John Moulton, died January 
31, 1744 or 1745. 

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Reubin, son of Samuel Moulton, by Sarah, his 
wife, born March 21, 1744. 

Samuiel. son of Benjamin Moulton. by Tabitha, 
his wife, born May 1, 1748. 

A purpose of marriage between Bartholomew 
OWj^y/VfcLL Descinen, of Topsfield, and Sarah Moulton, of 
Wenham, was published December 8, 1751. Mar- 
ried March 19, 1752. 

Married, May 21. 1760, Mr. Jonathan Moulton 
and Mrs. Mary Tarbox, both of Wenham. 

Thomas, son of Jonathan Moulton, by Mary, his 
wife, born February 12, 1761. 

Tarbox, son of Jonathan Moulton, by Mary, born 
October 27, 1761. 

Lydia Tarbox went to school in West Wenham 
in 1761. 

John, son of Jonathan Moulton, by Mary, born 
December 31, 1762. 

Jonathan Moulton, son of Jonathan, by Mary, 
his wife, was born January 8, 1763. 

Ebin Fisk, of Wenham, husbandman, made his 
will July 18, 1764. Proved October 28, 1764. In- 
ventory taken October 31, 1771. Legator's son 
Ebin, who had his walking cane. He gave to his 
grand-daughter, Sarah Moulton, to have among 
other things, all household goods that were his 
first wife's. 

January 29, 1767, Mr. Josiah Moulton and Miss 
Rebecca Tarbox, both of Wenham, were married. 

Samuiel, son of Jonathan, by Mary, born Feb- 
ruary 11, 1772. 

Married, April 27, 1776, Mr. John Symonds, of 
Danvers, and Mrs Hannah Moulton, of Wenham. 

In a list of Captain Dodge's company, Colonel 
Jacob Gerish's regiment, April 1, 1778, I find the 
name of Sergeant Jonathan Moulton. 

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Mr. John Moulton and Mrs. Sarah Davison, both 
of Wenham, entered their names and intentions 
of marriage with me, June 4, 1785, and were post- 
ed the fifth, as the law directs. June 25, gave a 
certificate. 

Captain John Moulton and Mrs. Salla Spring- 
er, widow, entered their names with me, inten- 
tion of marriage, February 25, 1789, and were 
posted the next Sunday. Gave certificate June 4 
1789. 

Married, July 28, 1789, Captain John Moulton, 
of Beverly, and Mrs. Sarah Springer, of Wenham. 

March 23, 1793, Mr. Nathaniel Kimball and 
Miss Rebecca Moulton, both of Wenham, entered 
their names and intentions of marriage with me 
and were posted the twenty-fourth of the same 
month. April 11th., gave certificate by me. 

John Dodge Jr., Town Clerk 

Married, April 11, Mr. Nathaniel Kimball and 
Miss Rebecca Moulton, both of Wenham. 

April 6, 1793, Mr. Jonathan Moulton, of Wen- 
ham, and Miss Hannah Wyatt, of Danvers, en- 
tered their names and intention of marriage with 
me and were posted seventh of the same month. 
April 14, gave certificate. 

Mr. Paul Porter and Miss Nancy Moulton, both 
of Wenham, entered their names with mtenvions 
of marriage, August 27, as the law directs, and 
were posted the twenty-eight. September 12, 1796, 
gave certificate. 

John Dodge Jr., Town Clerk. 

Married, Paul Porter and Nancy Moulton, both 
of Wenham, September 19, 1796. 

William Springer Moulton, son of Captain John 

Moulton, by Sarah, his wife, born October 23, 1796. 

Tarbox, son to Daniel Moulton, by Naomi, his 

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THE MOULTON FAMILY 

wife, born March 25, 1798. 

Charles, son of Captain John Moulton, by Sarah, 
his wife, born July 16, 1799. 

Hiram, son to Daniel Moulton, by Naomi, his 
wife, born August 25, 1801. 

John Moulton, son to Oliver Dodge, by Sally, 
his wife, born January 17, 1802. 

Died, Charles, son to John Moulton, October 
6, 1805, in the seventh year of his age. 

Captain John Moulton, of Wenham, and Mrs. 
Molly Baley, of Rowly, entered their names and 
intentions of marriage with me, July 2, 1808. 
Were posted the third, as the law directs. Gave 
certificate July 18, 1808. 

Augustus, son of Captain John Moulton, by 
Molly, his wife, born May 31, 1809. 

Died, July 18, 1806, Sally, wife of Josiah Moul- 
ton Hood, in the twenty-fifth year of her age. 

The five following children were born to Cap- 
tain John Moulton by Mary, his wife: 
Charles, born July 3, 1811. 

John, born May 7, 1813. Died January 12, 1814. 
John 2nd, born September 26, 1814. 
Mary, born August 5, 1816. Died February 4, 

1817. 

Ebin Hobson, born February 14, 1818. 

Married, February 17, 1828, Samuel Ober to 
Miss Emily Moulton, both of Wenham. 

An intent of marriage between Samuel Moulton 
and Sarah Yiske, both of Wenham, was published. 

.John, son of Captain John Moulton, by Sarah, 
his wife, born January 11, at Beverly. 



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